About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Aep, Alabama, Beanhive, Bizatch, Blackbat, Bliss, Bolzano, Bula, Burger, Byway, CAP, CIH, Cascade, Chameleon, Chill, Chr, Cohvir, Commander, Concept, Cross, Cruncher, Cysta, DBase, DMV, Datacrime, Dedicated, Eddie, Elkern, Frodo, Funlove, Groove, Icelandic, Invol, Japanese Christmas, Jerusalem, Kaos4, Karin, Krad, LFM, Laroux, Lehigh, MTX, Madsatan, Magistr, Maldal, Melissa, MetaPHOR, Mikevelyn, Murphy, NOP, Nuclear, Pathogen, Phage, Pixel, Ply, Pogue, Remex, Rushhour, SatanBug, Scores, Sharefun, Smash, Staog, Strangebrew, Stupid, Tamsui, Tannenbaum, Vacsina, Vienna, Virdem, Wazzu, Whale, Winux, Winvir, Yankeedoodle, Zerobug, Zmist. Excerpt: AEP is an early 16-bit Windows virus. It is nonmemory resident and specifically infects NewEXE files, .exe's and .dll's. It appears to take its name from American Eagle Publications, a small publisher in the American state of Arizona, known for its books on security topics, including several classic contraversial books on viruses. There is another virus sometimes also named AEP that also has the name Lamark. Kaspersky Lab. SecureList.com, Virus.Win16.AEP.a. 2000.01.12 Alabama is DOS .exe infector from 1988. While its name may suggest that it is from the southern United States, it actually comes from Israel. It has a few unusual habits with regard to how it infects a file. When a file infected with Alabama is executed, the virus becomes memory resident. Unlike some other memory resident viruses, it does not necessarily infect a file when it is executed. It will try to find a file to infect in the current directory, and failing that, will infect the file that has been executed. Every Friday, instead of infecting a file that it finds, it will execute that file instead of the one the user intended. One hour after execution, the virus displays the flashing text: SOFTWARE COPIES PROHIBITED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW.............. Box 1055 Tusca...
